Winter storm watch starts Wednesday night

12:29 AM,
Dec. 18, 2012

A winter storm watch beginning Wednesday night has been issued for much of Northeastern Wisconsin.

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Green Bay likely will be pounded with snow in the next day or two as a major storm sweeps through the state.

Early forecasts Monday said as much as a foot of snow could fall mostly in the southern third of the state, but by midday, the National Weather Service expanded its winter storm watch to include most of Northeastern Wisconsin from Wednesday night through Thursday night. However, the bureau said it still was too early to predict where the heaviest snow would fall.

Green Bay has a 30 percent chance of snow this afternoon, diminishing to around a 20 percent chance tonight, but the major action ...